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7 Sigma ConsultingCo-Founder & Director
May. 2024Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS)
Amnick Social EnterpriseArtificial Intelligence Consultant
Apr. 2024 - Jun. 2024City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaWe are an international collaboration consultancy composed of city leaders, mayors, tech companies, startups, SMEs, businesses, and universities. Contributed toward developing an AI Readiness framework. We provide brokerage and consultancy services to co-create solutions tailored to specific needs in the following practice areas: environment/smart cities, technologies (AI, IoT, digital transformation, blockchain), innovation, transportation, and cybersecurity. Our expertise lies in consultancy, interim management, and project management.
Evergreen FinanceBusiness Analyst
Oct. 2023City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa- Effectively communicating my insights and project plans to cross-functional team members and management.
- Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
- Working closely with key stakeholders, technicians, and managerial staff.
- Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to Management and staff alike.
- Assisting and advising the Project team on the allocation of resources and maintaining cost and quality efficiency.
- Testing the outcomes and outputs of projects to ensure quality is assured and in line with the outlined recommendations and expectations of the Executive Team.
- Facilitating User Acceptance testing to ensure that the user's needs are met on delivery of the requirements.
- Managing and eliciting Business Requirements and assisting the Project Manager to monitor performance and delivery of the scope.
- Assist in the updating, implementation, and maintenance of procedures where needed.
- Serving as a liaison between executives, users, and technical teams.
- Managing competing resources and priorities to ensure quality delivery.
- BPMN 2.0 Process Mapping, Jira Software, Agile Methodology
BDO UK LLPSenior Analyst: Technology Risk Assurance
Jul. 2023 - Sep. 2023London, England, United Kingdom• This position entails working virtually with the BDO UK LLP team on
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) audit for a global digital gaming company,
listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
• Responsibilities:
o Delivering multiple client engagements simultaneously of varying
size, scope and complexity;
o Performing analysis of business processes and client systems;
o Reviewing and provisioning of advice and assistance to clients on
business process and IT General Controls;
o Providing a very high standard of client service to external parties.
o Performing IT General Control testing including logical access,
change management and data processing.
o Performing network, infrastructure, data migration and
cybersecurity testing and reviews.
o Manage teams and effectively communicate across different levels
within the organisation, including both the IT audit, financial audit
and client teams.
o Mentor, coach, upskill and supervise all team members.
BDO South AfricaSenior Analyst (IT Audit): Financial Services Technology
Apr. 2023 - Sep. 2023Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaMain Duties and Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of, and complete/ensure work assignments are completed within the allocated time frame and to an appropriate standard (quality), including gaining an understanding of the client and its business, documenting its processes and methodologies (using narrative and flow diagrams).
- Project management
- Track any delays and overruns and raises these at the relevant partner catch-ups and client meetings. - - Get immediate and timely agreement from the client to overruns.
- Ensure that written documents are organised, well-written, referenced, and easy to follow.
- Develops effective working relationships directly with key clients and broader BDO stakeholders.
- Coordinate and lead meetings with client stakeholders and internal senior stakeholders in the absence of the manager/partner.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the client’s processes and methodologies, including the reviews of process flows.
- Understands the relevance of application controls workings and reviews the testing and documentation.
- Leads the client meetings.
- Reviews of process flows.
- Have the ability to start to manage teams and effectively communicate across different levels within the organisation, including both the IT audit, financial audit and client teams.
- Mentor, coach, upskill and supervise all team members.
BDO UK LLPAnalyst: Financial Services Technology (FST) Offshore
Sep. 2022 - Apr. 2023Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa- General IT Controls
- Application Controls
- Data Analytics
- ISAE 3402 reviews
- Business process analysis
- Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATs)
- Data Migration
- Infrastructure Testing
- Database Testing
- Network Testing
- Cybersecurity Assessment Reviews
BDO South AfricaAnalyst (IT Audit): Financial Services Technology
Oct. 2021 - Mar. 2023Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaAble to identify key IT risks related to financial reporting and thereafter key controls in order to develop innovative audit solutions. These solutions cater to the specific IT risks facing businesses within the Financial Services industry, in addition to new IT risks, which are emerging as a result of exponential technologies such as machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics.
•Information Technology General Controls Testing.
•Application Controls Testing
•Analyse information systems data to assess the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of transaction processing.
•Ability to develop an adequate understanding of client’s businesses and identifying Risks and Controls.
•Mentoring and coaching first years
•Providing status updates to the manager on the project
•Performing Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATS), where necessary and as part of IT audits
•Be knowledgeable on using data analytics tool such as IDEA in the audit,
•Having reasonable understanding of IT risk management, IT governance concepts, best practice frameworks.
BDO UK LLPAnalyst: Technology Risk Assurance
Oct. 2021 - Dec. 2021London, England, United KingdomThis position entails working remotely with the BDO UK LLP team, on a virtual secondment.
BDO South AfricaJunior Analyst (IT Audit): Financial Services Technology
Jan. 2021 - Oct. 2021Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
BDO South AfricaHackathon Participant (Phase 2)
Sep. 2020 - Sep. 2020Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaPart of a team who created a fully operational solution for the concept created in the BDO Hackathon Phase 1.
BDO South AfricaHackathon Participant (Phase 1 Winner)
Apr. 2020 - Apr. 2020Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa- The task was to solve a problem statement with such solutions for post COVID-19, that are innovative, sustainable, community driven, while being able to compete in the FinTech world that we live in.
- Involved with a team of 5 individuals.
- Contributed to design a Peer-To-Peer Lending system prototype, which uses Blockchain, Machine Learning and Chatbot. - Research and innovative ideas
- IT Analysis
- Business use cases and diagrams
- Risk Analysis.
Stellenbosch UniversityStudent Tutor
Feb. 2020 - Jul. 2020Cape Town Area, South Africa- Assisting students with practicals and assignments, when using various GIS and remote sensing software.
BankTechIntern
Jul. 2019 - Jul. 2019StellenboschThe task was to solve a problem statement involving block chain, escrow accounts, user interface (UI) and hardware for the payment of transfer of fuel.
BankTechStudent Hackathon (3rd Place Winner)
May. 2019 - May. 2019Cape Town Area, South AfricaParticipated in the Fintec Labs 24hr Hackathon event and was involved with a bank tech project.
Centre for Geographical Analysis GIS Data Capturer
Dec. 2018 - Jan. 2019Stellenbosch- Digitizing informal settlements in the City of Cape Town. - Quality control after digitizing.
Biff Lewis Geomatics Inc.Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Intern
Jul. 2018 - Jul. 2018Cape Town Area, South Africa- Assisted in land surveying field work.
- Created data based on GIS properties and attributes.
- Used QGIS in practice.
- Used GoogleEarth and GoogleMaps to assist in a GIS project.
adidasBrand Coach - Running & Brand Specialist
Mar. 2018 - Sep. 2023Cape Town Area, South Africa- Have a positive influence on clients' Net Promotor Score (NPS). - Have a positive influence on consumers and sell through by ensuring a world-class customer service experience.
- Responsible for implementation of on-the-ground brand coach activations.
- Responsible for implementing activations at allocated locations, in-store and as briefed by team leader.
- Increase the in-store sell-through in technical footwear across various categories.
- Have a positive impact on the running community through various activation platforms.
- Ensuring client footwear and technology is top of mind with store sales staff.
- Record the number of interactions, foot scans, sales and stock levels in store to form part of post-event reports.
- Representing both the Captivate Activations and client brand according to standards required and communicated.
- Responsible for branding, activation tools, stock and merchandise required to effectively deliver activation.
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